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Center for Instructional
Innovation and Assessment

INNOVATIVE TEACHING SHOWCASE

2009
2010
ISSUE 11

This year's Showcase theme, Planning for Large Classes, honors WWU faculty who have embraced management, student engagement, and personalization of large classes.

THEME 

JASON KANOV, Department of Management, teaches Management and Organizational Behavior 311 to an average class size of 200.


DAVID SHULL, Department of Environmental Science, teaches Introduction to Environmental Science 101 to average class size of 450.


LARRY SYMONS, Department of Psychology, teaches Introduction to Psychology 101 with average class size of 250.

Teaching large classes well is the most difficult and challenging task in academia and offers the fewest tangible rewards. Knowing, however, that you have a real, positive, and inspiring effect on hundreds or thousands of young people will more than compensate for the liabilities. Do it right, and you will have former students all over the world who will be grateful to you for the wisdom you gave them.

Frank Heppner, Teaching the Large College Class, 2007